Sure @Louis. But 6 spam flags and it's gone. Add extra downvotes and you'll have a post at -7 with 2 spam flags and it will live on for far longer than it has to, especially on smaller sites.
Once it's been identified as spam, we want it off the front page. Nothing is more off-putting to a potential contributor than arriving to a site and finding the streets littered with discount Gucci bags. Once it's tagged - it's quickly purged.
Moderators see spam flagged posts in a different so...
I beg to disagree about "deleted within minutes". Proof. 34 minutes and still counting, and it's not a small site. (deleted now, but still... 34 is more than a few) anyway this means moderators are NOT always available so it's vital for spam to stay in the front page where ordinary users with 15+ rep can see and flag it. — Shadow WizardMay 1 at 7:01
@JanDvorak Sadly, I am just an Android guy and don't know anything about these things. Thank you for this, but it'll take me sometime to figure it out.
@AndrewBarber ? (couldn't reply to that message again, but I didn't read a sentence out of yours yesterday. I didn't realize there were noticeable past flags )
incidentally I was thinking earlier today that we might soon get recognition/synthesizers to the point where two people can have a conversation with text at one end and speech at another.
The "vote down" thing is making everyone avoid answering to the question, and when someone votes down they feel like god. It destroys the fun of asking questions here.
I am looking for answers not for vote downs!
The vote thing should be on the answer's of the question and not on the question i...
> You're not downvoting enough, that's your problem. Your upvote/downvote ratio is just way, way too high. it appears that you're not downvoting all of the bad posts that you actually read. – Servy 51 secs ago
I'm puzzled by the migration attempt box that appears just under comments on the question that lead to the current discussion. (Handy link: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/256626/…)
I can't conceive someone would have tried to migrate it manually.
"migration rejected from stackoverflow.com" sounds to me like someone was trying to migrate it to the main site from Meta. (And there was a rejection from the destination site.)
A migration to another site is dependent on the acceptance of the target site. If they close it, that signals it apparently wasn't a good migration. And as a result it's subsequently rejected.
When a question is migrated from site A to site B and then closed on site B, the migration is said to be rejected. The copy of the question on A is unlocked and becomes merely closed with only the revision history showing the migration attempt. The copy on B is unlocked and a banner under the que...
Stack Overflow has no quality control mechanism. Period.
Learn to swallow it.
This site is not for the quality answers, this site is for collecting points and badges. With your silly demands you are just spoiling someone's game.
That silly voting measure suggested in accepted answer is just ...
If I "other" flag a comment, but the comment gets auto-nuked because it also included a word which causes that, do moderators still see the flag? Given that it's also dismissed as "helpful" immediately, I'd guess not.
@bjb568 The OP specifically asked (essentially), "Should you downvote questions where the OP didn't show / explain what they tried?" Your answer...doesn't really answer that question.
Yes.
"How to" can be closed and -1'd for a lot for reasons (at least -1 for no effort (This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful), but probably comes with other problems that would justify closing like unclear, recommending tool…, duplicate, and too broad).
We...